Co-Watching Platform Synchronization for Real-Time Shared Wagering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to provide a synchronized viewing experience for video content across different geographic locations, especially when broadcasted by different providers with varying timings and commercial breaks, and lack the ability to integrate fantasy sports and wagering during such events.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for synchronized video content presentation and data sharing across multiple user devices, enabling distributed viewers to watch the same content together, with features like daily fantasy sports, peer-to-peer wagering, and integration with sportsbooks for synchronized wagering, using a host device or server to initiate and manage co-watching sessions and wagers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If centralized content providers control delivery of content, then synchronized viewing is achieved, but geographic accessibility and provider diversity are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third-party viewing party platform that acts as an intermediary between distributed content sources and viewers. This mediator coordinates synchronization across different geographic locations and content providers without requiring centralized control, enabling both synchronized viewing and geographic accessibility simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a coordination dimension by implementing a viewing party platform that operates independently from content delivery infrastructure. This new dimension enables synchronization to be achieved through coordinated timing protocols rather than centralized control, allowing geographic distribution to coexist with synchronized viewing.
2Adaptability or versatility
If different media providers broadcast at different timings with commercial breaks, then content diversity is maintained, but synchronized viewing experience is degraded
Solution Approach 1:
The viewing party platform performs preliminary coordination by establishing synchronized timing protocols before the actual viewing event. The system pre-calculates synchronization offsets and coordinates commercial break timing across different providers, enabling synchronized viewing experience while maintaining content diversity from multiple sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the viewing party platform continuously monitors timing variations from different content providers and adjusts synchronization in real-time. This feedback loop compensates for different broadcast timings and commercial break schedules, maintaining synchronized viewing without sacrificing content diversity.
3Productivity
If wagering and fantasy sports are integrated during co-watching, then user engagement is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges wagering and fantasy sports functionality directly into the viewing party platform, combining multiple engagement features within a single integrated system. This consolidation improves user engagement by providing diverse interaction options while managing system complexity through unified architecture rather than separate independent systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The viewing party platform is designed with multi-functionality, serving as a universal platform that handles video streaming, synchronization coordination, fantasy sports management, and wagering operations. This universal design improves user engagement through diverse features while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate systems by using a single multi-purpose platform.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes establishing a co-watching session at a host device for a streaming event, joining the co-watching session at a first user device, joining the co-watching session at a second user device, establishing a first account balance associated with the first user device, establishing a second account balance associated with the second user device, initiating a wager display interface for a wager during the co-watching session, generating a selection signal for selecting the wager at the second user device and reducing the second account balance based on the selection signal.